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Mark 15:34

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

KJV

καὶ τῇ ἐνάτῃ ὥρᾳ ἐβόησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς φωνῇ μεγάλῃ· ἑλωῒ ἑλωῒ λεμὰ σαβαχθανεί; ὅ ἐστιν μεθερμηνευόμενον· ὁ θεός μου ὁ θεός μου, εἰς τί ἐγκατέλιπές με;

Greek NT

Et hora nona exclamavit Jesus voce magna, dicens : Eloi, eloi, lamma sabacthani ? quod est interpretatum : Deus meus, Deus meus, ut quid dereliquisti me ?

Vulgate

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

ASV

And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βοάω
boao
verb · 12×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαμά
lama
aramaic_word · 2×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
μεθερμηνεύω
methermeneuo
verb · 7×
σαβαχθάνι
sabachthani
aramaic_word · 2×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἐγκαταλείπω
egkataleipo
verb · 10×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐλοΐ
eloi
aramaic_word · 4×
ἔννατος
ennatos
adjective · 10×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὥρα
ora
noun · 106×

Textual variants

4 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἐνάτῃ ὥρᾳ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐνάτῃ ὥρᾳ | RP: ὥρᾳ τῇ ἐνάτῃ
  • ἐνάτῃ ὥρᾳ — SBLGNT
  • ἐνάτῃ ὥρᾳ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὥρᾳ τῇ ἐνάτῃ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: μεγάλῃ | WH/Treg/NIV: μεγάλῃ | RP: + λέγων
  • μεγάλῃ — SBLGNT
  • μεγάλῃ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + λέγων — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: λεμὰ | NIV: λεμὰ | WH/Treg: λαμὰ | RP: λιμὰ
  • λεμὰ — SBLGNT
  • λεμὰ — Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • λαμὰ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • λιμὰ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐγκατέλιπές με | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐγκατέλιπές με | RP: με ἐγκατέλιπες
  • ἐγκατέλιπές με — SBLGNT
  • ἐγκατέλιπές με — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • με ἐγκατέλιπες — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§603Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned.405 But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"406 Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God "did not spare his own S…
§2605When the hour had come for him to fulfill the Father's plan of love, Jesus allows a glimpse of the boundless depth of his filial prayer, not only before he freely delivered himself up (“Abba . . . not my will, but yours."),53 but even in his last words on the Cross, where prayer and the gift of self are but one: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do",54 "Truly, …
'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?' See Ps. xxii. 1 and Matt. xxvii. 46 and Mark xv. 34. These are the words of Christ upon the Cross. The Psalm is spoken in the person of Christ crucified. Not that God the Father forsook the Son; but the human nature, which He took upon Himself, cried out in its weakness. For He truly suffered, and His suffering was real, not feigned.…

Cross-references

  • Acts 10:3 — He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
  • Dan 9:21 — Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
  • Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
  • Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
  • Isa 41:17 — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
  • Job 6:4 — For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
  • Lam 1:12 — Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
  • Lam 5:20 — Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
  • Luke 23:44 — And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
  • Luke 23:46 — And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
  • Luke 23:46 — And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
  • Matt 27:33 — And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
  • Matt 27:46 — And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
  • Matt 27:46 — And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
  • Ps 22:1 — My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  • Ps 22:1 — My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  • Ps 27:9 — Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
  • Ps 42:9 — I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 69:14 — Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
  • Ps 71:11 — Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.